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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Greg Rademacher, Ortonville, MI (US);
Thomas Adler, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Yang Chen, Windsor, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/00678 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00092 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00721 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle HVAC system comprises an evaporator, a heater core, an air mixing door between the evaporator and the heater core, the air mixing door being configured to direct a portion of an airflow to either bypass or pass over the heater, and a baffle. The baffle is configured to gradually change the area available to a portion of the airflow as the air mixing door is moved.